The Space Shuttle Challenger flew nine successful missions before that fateful January day in 1986.
STS-51L commander, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee was 46 years old.
He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 44, Grave 1129-4.
The elementary school Dick attended in Auburn, Washington was renamed in his honor
STS-51L pilot, Navy Captain Michael John Smith was 40 years old.
He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 7A, Grave 208-1.
The regional airfield in his hometown Beaufort, North Carolina was named after him.
STS-51L mission specialist Judith Arlene Resnik was 36 years old. She is buried under Arlington's Challenger memorial which I will have a picture of later.
Judy's flight suit is on permanent display at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
STS-51L mission specialist, Air Force Colonel Ellison Shoji Onizuka was 39 years old.
He is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Oahu, Hawaii.
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California named a street in El's honor.
STS-51L mission specialist, Ronald Erwin McNair was 35 years old.
He is buried at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Memorial Park in Lake City, South Carolina.
Which also has a larger than life statue of the city's favorite son.
STS-51L payload specialist, Gregory Bruce Jarvis was 41 years old.
His ashes were spread at his favorite surfing spot in Hermosa Beach, California.
A sculpture called Jarvis Memorial was commissioned by his alma mater, the University of Buffalo, and is part of that school's permanent art collection.
STS-51L payload specialist and Teach in Space winner, Sharon Christa McAuliffe was 37 years old.
She is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.
When New Hampshire built a science and space-themed discovery center, it was named after the state's two world famous astronauts, Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard.
Arlington National Cemetery dedicated its largely privately funded Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in 1987, It is located in Section 46, Grave 1129-8, near the USS Maine Monument, across the street from the cemetery's memorial amphitheater.
In 2004, President George W. Bush awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to each member of the STS-51L crew.
After the disaster Jean Michel Jarre renamed the song Last Rendezvous, that Ron McNair had wanted to record the saxophone part for while in orbit, Ron's Song
And John Denver made good on his promise to record a song about the Teacher in Space winner. It was not the song he thought he would write but the lyrics came to him as he watched the footage of the shuttle disaster over and over again on TV.
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